Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family (1951) Random House-Yearling, 1989. (Actually, Delacorte's 1995 cover image shown.) If you'd been at the library on the day that the girls went in the book's opening scene, you could've been introduced to them along with Miss Allen, the pretty new librarian. There's Ella, the oldest,
Edward Eager's Magic by the Lake (1957) Illus. N.M. Bodecker Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999* It seems completely reasonable that magic is everywhere. At least, if you're Jane. "If I could find a magic charm right on Maplewood Avenue, it stands to reason there must be lots of it lying
Edward Eager's Half Magic (1954) Illus. N.M. Bodecker Harcourt Brace & Company, 1985 Countless times, I borrowed the school library's copy of this book but, to be honest, I don't remember which, if any, of its sequels I read. I do know that I borrowed some of them, too, when
Mary Norton's The Borrowers Avenged (1982) Illus. Beth and Joe Krush Harcourt Inc, 1998 Had I been a loyal follower of this series in the 1950s and 1960s when they were published, I'd've been hard pressed to wait 16 years for the next volume of Mary Norton's borrowers' stories. As
Mary Norton's Poor Stainless (1966) Also included in the Odyssey Classic edition of The Borrowers Aloft (originally published in 1961 and republished in 1998) is the short tale, Poor Stainless. This was originally published as a separate volume in 1966, presented as a tale that Homily tells Arrietty, something that happened
